by the government. Four years on, a new Ms Begum has appeared, asking to come home from a camp in northern Syria in a lengthydocumentary that aired this month. The niqab is gone, replaced by a baseball cap and sunglasses that are more TikTok than terror state. On February 22nd, a court put paid to that dream: her appeal against the removal of her citizenship was struck down.
Banishment returned only in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on America. Terrorism did not respect modern borders, so governments dusted off ancient tools. Britain was in the vanguard. Dormant laws that allowed naturalised citizens to be stripped of their passports were repurposed; in 2002 Labour expanded the law even to those who, like Ms Begum, were born British.
The consequences are ugly. For starters, British citizens are no longer equal. Britain does not remove citizenship from native-born people who would thereby be made stateless, which is against international law. Only Britons with an alternative citizenship, or the potential to gain one, may face the punishment. Someone of Bangladeshi descent or with an Irish grandparent can have their citizenship stripped; someone of tenth-generation Norfolk stock cannot.
No, her jail is her life decision, This should be an example of what not to do, our resources have a cost.
Bollywood is waiting to make make movies with her and resurrect her as The Queen messiah of Victims. They will even create narrative that she was expelled from India & help BBC by showing India as Facist state that took her Nationality and then conspire to make Her Legal Citizen
What captures our attention is the cost of legal aid for this creature.
This is funny, because the US armed and supported Islamist terrorists (ISIS & Al-Qaeda) in Syria, to fight against Assad.
She made her decision, British state owes her nothing
Brits had penal colonies.judges followed the law.
The replies! Quite literally the most intelligent reply made so far to this tweet is an advert for moisturiser
amazing that your solution to literally everything is letting in brown people
She gave aid in killings of lot of people. She has no remorse.
Then release her after a week. Clowns!!
No, Shamima is back with her people. She may have been born here but she is not British. Don’t try to push water uphill.
Thing is, you bring her back and she will be out of prison in a year or two.
Bollocks
Typical left wing propaganda article to let Trojan horses in
Bring her back and send her to The Hague….
Yes, bring her back so that she can infect all the prison population with extreme ideologies
If the UK didn’t have a weak and spineless, pro criminal, pro terrorist judicial system I would agree, but it has and Begum would be freed at some stage instead of being executed.
I don’t really care, bring her back so she can groom others into Islamic state in prison? No thanks
Leave her there. She doesn’t deserve to come back no even as a prisoner.
is it the media appeal or democratic law wants...?
I love this PR machinery - subtle, powerful, well-oiled- from the BBC and now Economist.
Why waste the British tax payers money on her
This is so obviously the answer. You can't have countries making people stateless because they committed a crime. She's our responsibility.
There has to be an inquest into the deaths of her three babies with witnesses brought.
She gave up her citizenship you dolt
These evil disgusting children of mine I never raised embarrassed me using magic to traffick me when I was unconscious controlling me like I’m a puppet. Very depressed. Found out they’re spending my big money without my permission and ruined my kidneys and gave me brain damage.
Bravo UK
No give her to Syria to try her for her disgusting crimes.
This is mostly right but in order to put her in prison she needs to be convicted of a crime: it’s unclear there’s sufficient evidence of any crime. In fact even her opponents who argue she should be kept out cite some unspecified future threat not a past crime. duncanrobinson
N0.
Why are you so determined to seat this enemy of the state back in England? She may have been young and dumb when she decided to throw her weight in with terrorists, but we all pay for the crimes of our past, don't we. Should England now foot the bill for her incarceration?
Not ever. Never. The populist vote is already in. 👍
Much of the corruption came to the UK, and innocent people voted for those politicians who then occupied the British Parliament and tarnished the country's reputation for kindness. Law is Law for everyone.
She made her choice when she left to fight for ISIS.
Ever wondered where she's getting the money to pay for all this legal support?
Bring her to GB and can proof nothing what she did. Then she is free.
Ever wonder at your audience engagement?
Bring back hanging.
No. She abandoned UK citizenship and decided her fate, when joined the terrorist group on her free will. Millions of migrants from 3rd world countries would be forever grateful for the opportunity to live in UK, the same privilege she disdained. Save the taxpayers money.
How is something simultaneously 'rare' and 'routine'? The corruption of language is the corruption of thought.
Why spend tax payer money on this nonsense…use it for NHS
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